[rescue] Duping CDs in Solaris

[Brian Wheeler]

On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 08:21, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
>      I've gotten a bit nervous about using my -only- orignal IRIX media
> kit for doing installations.  So, I'd like to make a backup set.  The
> problem is that my only CDRs are in a Windows-based PC and a Sun Ultra 10.  
> 
>      Making duplicates on the PC is easy.  CloneCD does the trick, and the
> results are bootable and excellent.  However, my PC's at home, and I
> normally go straight to bed when I get home, so I get (at most) one CD
> burned overnight.
> 
>      Assuming that I want to make one copy, and don't mind waiting two
> weeks, this is fine.  However, my fiancee just rescued a buttload of
> Indigo2 workstations[1], tossed out by MIT.  No media kit was included, so
> she'd like a copy.
> 
>      I don't want to wait 4 weeks for CDs. :)
> 
>      I'm guessing that I need to:
>      1) Kill vold
>      2) dd if=/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0 of=/export/home/jp/tmp.iso
>      3) cdrecord -dev=0,2,0 /export/home/jp/tmp.iso
> 
>      Any mistakes/gotchas?  EFS CDs are partitioned strangely--will a
> straight dd get everything I need?  The CDR on the Ultra is an old 2x IDE
> job of unknown condition, FWIW.

That's pretty much what I did when I made a copy of the IRIX media on
linux.  I specified "-speed=8 -v -eject" to cdrecord on my 8x writer so
it'd dump more information, and throw out the disk when it was done. 

Brian



> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> --Jonathan
> [1] Falling down that path, after just knowing me less than 6 years.
>     Tragic.
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